“Every word has consequences. Every silence, too.”

— Jean-Paul Sartre

“We are as forlorn as children lost in the woods. When you stand in front of me and look at me, what do you know of the griefs that are in me and what do I know of yours.”

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“Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.”

— Gertrude Stein

“Yes, be patient with me. My heart is heavy.”

— Albert Camus

“First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.”

— Epictetus

“Why do people have to be this lonely? What's the point of it all? Millions of people in this world, all of them yearning, looking to others to satisfy them, yet isolating themselves. Why? Was t...

“Whatever you're meant to do, do it now. The conditions are always impossible.”

— Doris Lessing

“One resists the invasion of armies; one does not resist the invasion of ideas.”

— Victor Hugo

“It is sad not to be loved, but it is much sadder not to be able to love.”

— Miguel de Unamuno

“You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.”

— Colette

“We must plan for freedom, and not only for security, if for no other reason than that only freedom can make security secure.”

— Karl Popper

“Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.”

— Leo Tolstoy

“If you shut up truth and bury it under the ground, it will but grow, and gather to itself such explosive power that the day it bursts through it will blow up everything in its way.”

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“You make your own luck, Gig. You know what makes a good loser? Practice.”

— Ernest Hemingway

“Paradoxically, the ability to be alone is the condition for the ability to love.”

— Erich Fromm

“Rooted in freedom, bonded in the fellowship of danger, sharing everywhere a common human blood, we declare again that all men are brothers, and that mutual tolerance is the price of liberty.”<...

“Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences. No one can eliminate prejudices — just recognize them.”

— Edward R. Murrow

“The oppressor would not be so strong if he did not have accomplices among the oppressed.”

— Simone de Beauvoir

“I learned that it is the weak who are cruel, and that gentleness is to be expected only from the strong.”

— Leo Rosten

“Take away freedom of speech, and the creative faculties dry up.”

— George Orwell